Mart Muller's Weblog

My colleague Stef did some excellent work on the CruiseControl WebParts (v1.2). You can download them, including sources at CodePlex.

Also check out the other Tam Tam projects at Codeplex:

SharePoint Solutions Management

• Screenshot 1
• Screenshot 2
• SharePoint SolutionManagement 1.0
  

SharePoint Logging

• Screenshot 1
• SharePoint Diagnostics 1.0

SharePoint Workflow Activities

• WWF Short Delay Activity

SharePoint CruiseControl Webparts

• Screenshot 1
• TamTam.SharePoint.CruiseControl 1.0

John is posting about a codeplex project called CAML.Net, a .Net interface for creating CAML queries. It seems really promising, and for a lot of people a relief.

"A beta version of the CAML.NET assembly is available now on CodePlex at http://www.codeplex.com/camldotnet. Please feel free to download it - give it a spin - and provide feedback either here or in the discussion forums. The CAML query schema is the first step. Planned future releases will include the other CAML schemas. My goal is simply to make it easier to write CAML code and thereby increase the productivity of SharePoint developers."

Scott Harris and Maike Ammerlaan wrote a MSDN article about how to use disposable WSS objects. A very usefull article that shows that you cannot always rely on the garbage collector to release objects quickly. A must read for every SharePoint developer!

“Several of the Windows SharePoint Services objects, primarily the SPSite class and SPWeb class objects, are created as managed objects. However, these objects use unmanaged code and memory to perform the majority of their work. The managed part of the object is small; the unmanaged part of the object is much larger. Because the smaller managed part of the object does not put memory pressure on the garbage collector, the garbage collector does not release the object from memory in a timely manner. The object's use of a large amount of unmanaged memory can cause some of the unusual behaviors described earlier. Calling applications that work with IDisposable objects in Windows SharePoint Services must dispose of the objects when the applications finish using them. You should not rely on the garbage collector to release them from memory automatically.”

read the complete article

Great post bij Carlos with his Webpart template project download for VS.Net 2005!

“Days ago I wrote about how to use msbee to do webparts with Visual Studio 2005, now the toolkit guys have a beta version, I have spent the weekend doing some tests with this beta release and now I'm doing my webparts using Visual Studio 2005. In the beginning I was using the external tools menu to launch the msbuild process with apropiate targets, and later launching other tool with the sign assembly process, finally I have modified the .csproj file because at the moment for SharePoint 2003 I only need use the Net 1.1 framework. Also I added at the Postbuild event the sign assembly process.”

In order to use this template you need install MsBee and the .Net 1.1 Framework.

 SharePoint_2003_VS2005_WebPart_Template.vsi V2 corrected version (537,63 KB)

Stef’s been working with CruiseControl.Net lately, showing a project and its builds. We (at Tam Tam) are working with WSS as a platform for collaboration in projects (a.k.a. ProjectSpaces). We invite our customers to participate in these ProjectSpaces. Stef did a cool thing with integrating this build information with SharePoint.

Usefull AND cool!